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Hello! I am Mrs. Angie Logsdon and I am delighted to be teaching
Kindergarten this year! I have been working in education for 6 years,
teaching at the elementary and middle school levels. I have worked with
kindergarteners over the past two years and I absolutely love it! I
have a very strong background in ESL and I look forward to seeing how
much progress these kids will make over this school year.I finished my
undergraduate work at Northwestern College in 2007 and graduated with
honors. My areas of study were Psychology, Bible, Spanish and
Intercultural Studies. I then moved from Minnesota to Texas to become a
teacher. I became certified in Elementary Education (Early Childhood
through 4th grade), ESL (English as a Second Language), and Bilingual
Education. I spent a summer teaching abroad in Mexico and spent the
rest of my teaching career in San Antonio, Texas.

In my free
time, I love to take pictures, run, hike, and be outdoors. I also love
to read, journal, and travel. I am looking forward to exploring Qingdao
and other parts of both China and Asia!

This year we will be
doing a lot of fun activities that will build on your students’ natural
inquisition and curiosity. Our first unit will be exploring what it
means to be an individual and what it means to be part of a group. We
will also be looking at how we use our senses to explore the world
around us. I can’t wait to dive in and explore with these kids! My
assistants this year are Mrs. Amanda and Mrs. Jessy who have been
working at QISS for several years now. They work wonderfully with the
kids and I think we all make a great team.Take a look at who I am and what we will be learning this year!

My Philosophy of Education: “The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what
to think- rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for
ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.” -Bill
Beattie (emphasis mine)
I believe that education is a life-long process that is in
no way limited to the classroom. Education should provide students an
equal opportunity to learn life skills that will prepare each child for
success and put each child’s future in his or her own hands. A good
education will equip each student with the tools necessary to succeed
and allow them to take advantage of opportunities that otherwise may
have remained out of reach. Education should be student-focused and
should affirm the individuality and worth of each student. A good
teacher ensures that students feel self-confident in their own talents
and abilities, safe to share thoughts and ideas, unafraid to ask
questions and think critically, and to know that they are valued and
cared for. I have come to
these conclusions based largely on my unique life experiences, but the
majority came from studying abroad in Latin America. Although I was
only there for four months, my experiences there challenged everything I
knew to be true. It instilled within me a desire to be constantly
learning; to challenge, question, and think critically about all sorts
of issues. It also taught me to be more aware of events and solutions
instead of being content to let the problem perpetuate. It brought me
face-to-face with poverty and despair and made me aware of all sorts of
situations that I had never seen before. In spite of that, my time
abroad has also given me hope for a better world and the motivation to
do everything in my power to achieve that. I believe that change starts
early on, with children. They are the future. The lessons I have
learned and passions I have developed for learning and education are
meant to be shared with as many people as possible and that is what has
inspired and compelled me to become a teacher.